Remote Gob Gas Venthole Monitoring and Cellular Telephone-Based Real-Time Data Transmission System

Details

• Personal Author:
  Diamond, William P. ; Garcia F ; Marshall, J. K.
• Description:
  Many longwall mines rely on methane drainage to supplement traditional fan-based ventilation systems. However, the surface production facilities for methane drainage systems, including gob gas ventholes, are commonly located in remote locations, sometimes without convenient access to electrical power, and they may be monitored infrequently. The first evidence that a methane drainage system may not be operating efficiently, or not operating at all, can be an increase in methane concentrations at a return air shaft or underground where the workforce is exposed to the risk of a methane explosion. A solar powered, remote gob gas venthole monitoring and cellular telephone-based real-time data transmission system has been developed and successfully field tested by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to address this problem. With this system, individual methane drainage boreholes can be monitored from the mine office to determine current operational performance parameters, as well as review past data to anticipate maintenance needs and troubleshoot operational problems. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Methane-control Methane-drainage Mine-gases Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Monitors Ventilation-systems
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  9058093875
• Publisher:
  Balkema
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  323-328
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023125
• Citation:
  Mine Ventilation: Proceedings of the North American/Ninth US Mine Ventilation Symposium, June 8-12 2002, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. De Souza E ed. Lisse, Netherlands: A. A. Balkema, 2002 Oct; :323-328
• Editor(s):
  De Souza E
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Exposure Assessment Methods
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8c651e9179d54eba8ae7fde661dfda61453953923c7505e9900144f837d9078bb21202a7e682cd3bfaf0eb147692c19cccf2840520ca66a3f0c788c58a277970
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220613/cdc_220613_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.38 MB ]